I was so confused because all my isos are of operating systems
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I know you're joking, but actually most ISOs I have are actually operating systems or games. I've never seen a normal movie release as an ISO, except maybe 1:1 copies of retail disks.
Radarr seems to love finding blu-ray quality movies as ISOs
Add ISO to the extension blacklist in SAB so that the download fails and Radarr tries a different one.
If they are backups, rather name them .img.
Handbrake reads and converts DVD movie and video ISOs. If they are encrypted, MakMKV and DVDDecrypter can be used to get them ready for Handbrake.
I've tried HandBrakeCLI and for some reason it detects all tracks as 5 seconds and outputs a 2.4mb file from a 29gb ISO. Does this mean they're encrypted?
If it's a 29GB ISO it's definitely not a DVD but likely a BluRay. It may be encrypted/corrupted/not a video. Try MakeMKV next to see if it can decrypt and recognize the chapters.
Does MakeMKV have a command line tool for Linux? I’m trying to do this all through ssh
I believe they do. Their Linux installer link is buried in the forums: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224
They have batch ISO convert CLI for Windows: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15426
You may need to network share your headless seedbox or whatever you have the ISO on to do this off a linux or Windows machine.
Turns out makemkv is on AUR so I was able to yay -S makemkv and one of the options was the CLI! After this I was able to run makemkvcon mkv iso:<file> all <dir> and it seems to be working! Thank you so much for your help
I'm glad I could help! Can you post the CLI command syntax that worked for you to run makemkv to decrypt your ISO? It will help others are trying to figure this out in the future. Or was it just the single command you posted?
Oh, I did in my comment. It was just:
makemkvcon mkv iso:my_file_name.iso all outputDirectory
Note: outputDirectory must exist, it could even just be ./
makemkv will then scan the iso for its chapters, filter out the small ones, convert the large ones to mkv files and output them in your directory you provided. Then I just looked for the biggest one and deleted the smaller ones, the big one ended up being almost the same size as the ISO and was indeed the movie output I was looking for.
Thanks for following up! I'm surprised it just dumped out one mkv file without you having to command a specific chapter to decrypt. It's good to know that you can probably set up a batch file to decrypt everything in a whole directory!
Well the all parameter had it convert all the ones big enough, I ended up with 3 then just paired it down to the one I cared about.
Thank you kind sailor!
Here are makemkvcon syntax parameters for you to try: https://bluray.beandog.org/makemkv/man/makemkvcon.html
I think this is the best response for OP!
Mount that shit
Handbrake is able to "mount" ISOs, should be pretty straightforward from there.
I've tried HandBrakeCLI and for some reason it detects all tracks as 5 seconds and outputs a 2.4mb file from a 29gb ISO
I've always used Free ver. of PowerISO to "mount" the disc image to a virtual drive like others mentioned. Anyone who's emulated PlayStation 1/2 games would be very familiar with this format. Otherwise any old software released on CD format you'll probably find as an ISO.
Can you mount them? If so what does that look like?
If you are in windows, right click on the iso and the option to mount the image should come up. Once mounted it should look like a DVD or CD was inserted and should behave as such.
Manjaro
Should be similar on most Linux distros.
If there is no encryption involved, you should be able to unpack them with 7zip without any mounting and then convert with ffmpeg to a format of your liking. IIRC, DVDs usually consist of a bunch of VOB files. You can just cat them all together and then send directly to ffmpeg.
Cating them together does only work in some cases though.
Could you elaborate?
No, sorry. Only thing i remember the Stackoverflow post warning about some conditions and it didn't work for me.
I would imagine if they are ISOs a DVD converter would probably work.
mkdir /mnt/iso
sudo mount -o loop /path_to_iso/filename.iso /mnt/iso
@Cqrd i use wincdemu to mount and 7zip to unzip contents without mounting on windows boxes, same for Linux but wincdemu is cdemu, fuseiso, acetoneiso or brasero
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuseiso/files/
https://cdemu.sourceforge.io/about/
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero/Documentation
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acetoneiso
I’d like to recommend using DVDFab for converting your ISO files to MP4 format. It's available on Linux, including your Manjaro setup. If you encounter any issues with encrypted DVDs, you might also need to consider tools like MakeMKV for decryption. Just keep in mind that MakeMKV is typically used to extract the video without compression, so you can then use DVDFab HD Decrypter afterward to convert to MP4 if needed.
Use ffmpeg to convert them
Mount them and move stuff over.
Handbrake can convert DVD images into other formats if that's what you have. (7ish gigs each)
I've tried HandBrake and for some reason it detects all tracks as 5 seconds and outputs a 2.4mb file from a 29gb ISO
Try messing around with feature selection, or try with "--main-feature".